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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21

OFT obscure the road that leads to health,
Unmarked by board or sign;
Wisdom avails not, powerless Is wealth
To eOoth those aches of thine.
But do not despair, with life there's hope,
The cloud conceals the sun;
With Pierce's Favorite Prescription ut hand
You hfe's full course may run.
More truth than poetry IN these lines, as
thousands of ladies all over the land now
blooming with health, testify to the great
curative powers Of DR.. Pierce's Favorite
and careful study to the happy relief Of all
those weaknesses and ailments peculiar to
females. All druggists.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21

A Husbands Greatest Blessing
is q strong, healthy, vigorous wife, with q
clear, handsome complexion. These can all
be acquired by using DR.. Harters Iron
Tonic.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21

"~BoY-corTINe here" is the sign Of .
Sixth street newsboys lodging house.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21

Lady Gin grocery store)-Let me
have a pound of butter, please. Clerk
(who used to tend in cigar store)-
Mild or strongP-Harper's Bazaar.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21

Anew York man is said to be at work
on a continuance with which he hopes
to make all housekeepers forever indie
pendent of gas and coal companies. 1t
is a metal box which can be left stand
ing anywhere. and into it are thrown
all of the refuse of the house, includ-
ing dust, ashes and the debris Of the
table. Certain chemical agents are
then set to work and electricity is pro-
duced and stored which may afterwards
be utilized for heat and light. But if
there are to be no coal stoves about
the house where will the ashes come
from.-Boston Transcript.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21

A PHILOSOPHER who had married an ig.
norant girl used to call her 'sbrown
sugar." because, he said, she was sweet,
but unrefined.-M 7. Ledger.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21

No Opium in Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton. Cures where other remedies fail. Csc,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21

WHAT il the difference between an angry
lover and q Tilted maidp' "Give it up"
"Why, one Il . cross beau, and the other is
~cut-lass."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21

WELL-DREssED people riding in Russian
sleighs have q very furrin' appearance.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21
1t seems that Lieutenant Greely

1t seems that Lieutenant freely
believes in the theory that there is an
open sea, some 1900 miles in diameter,
round about the Pole, hat never
freezes, the conjecture being that the
Pole itself is the center of an ~ice-capped
land, covered with ice from 1000 to
1000 feet thick.-Golden Rule.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21
The annual return of the volunteer

The annual return of the volunteer
corps of Great Britain for the year 1886
shows that the number on the author
lied establishment is 253, 935, of whom
220, 1928 are given as efficients. The in
fantry armed with the rifle constitute
1876, 1913 of the force, the artillery
1850, engineers 1O,524, submarine
miners $50, Lighthouse 425, mounted
rifemen 81 and medical staff corps COZ.
The p~roicients who have qualified for
the special grant of fifty shillings num-
her 81, 1856.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21

An editor makes an income when he
makes his ink hum " hitehau Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21
~Untold Agony from Cafarrh"
rb,ree not.Ie. cure Catarrh.

ELI RoBBrNs, Runpan p: O.. Columbia Co
Pa, says my daughter had Sa1a1f awn r.
Sase's Catsrfh Remedy advertised. and Pro.
cured q bottle for her, and soon ~ .1r.
nent cure. She is now eighteen years OLD ana
sound ard hearty"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21

THE strike among matches is slowly sub
siding as the days lengthen.-DdnsSue
Breeze
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21

A LARGE woodshed-When q blockhead's
hair com s out.-NeW Haven Neus.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21
orr obscure the road that leads to health.

THERE are two things whose drawing
power has never been e~xcelled-the circus
and the porous plaster. -Siftings,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21

OXYGEN CURE. Throat, lung, nervous dis
eases. Book free. DR.. Geppert, Cincinnati,O.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21

The Maxim gun fires seven hundred
shots q minute. Everybody who hears this
maxim will heed it-Portland advertiser.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21

II afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's EyeWater. Druggists sell
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21
SICK HELlLeAE
$500 REWARD.

d $ ! 3! j: !! !! 9! !! !!:!::!:: !
~ Chronic Nasal Catszrh which
ME&.W they canno cure.
SYMPTOMS OF CATA11H.-Dul,
psssages, discharges falling from the head
into the throat sometimes profuse, Waterys
and scrid, 6 other. thick, tensciSns. mucom:
weaR. Wsstery, and innamed there Il nngine
In the ears deafness, hacking % COUGHING g
msttcr. toeeshcr WITH scebs nom ulcers; r.
voice u changed and has . nasal tHnnes o.
brss.t5 = oas1 4. ;sn mel s Oe t &c I ere a ia
easH asp afRge'solS niy Z f ssS y tS Ss1 sBovs.n.nsd
s ss.sI %so are Mss y g sas e P snanan9, u, 1aiso1s
manifesting half of the above symptoma re-
s No a /. S,n g % pSo%mo onc more sae d &c md
of Bs is mia 3. SCORING. and Se.Ins Psopeztaea
Corr. md Cs4arrhal. Headache.
Soid BY druggists everywhere; 70 cenu.
~Untold Agony from CatarrhD
Prof. W. HAusNER, the. famous mesmeriss
Gf . assscsj M Untold Is Ts asony from rome chronic nasal
such q bad one, Shat every day, towards lnn:
sci, my voice would become % noIrse co@.o
NV couThing and clearing of my throat you'd
almost stranele me. By the use o. Dr: sogen
man. and the cure has been permanent"
xConse,ntly Hawking and sPasadns~
THoxAg J. RUSHING, ESQ. sos Ptnc Streek
from cafarrh Tor three years. At time I could
hardly breathe, and was c9nstantlX hawx1ns
could not breathe through the nostxils. I
thought nothing could be done for ne. LncE.
Remedv and i an now q well man. / believe
Il to be the only sure remedy for catarrh now
manufactured, and ono has OILY 20 s,xve ~
q permanent cure"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21
FOR HORSES.
Uv1LLA. w. Va,
Nov. IL, 1886.

Recently I bought a
young horse. He was
taken veryin with Pneu-
monia. l tried to think
Of something to relieve
him. Concluded what
was good for man would
be good for the horse.
So got q bottle Of Piso''s
Cure and gave him half
of it through the nos
trils. This helped him,
and I continued giving
same doses night and
morning until I had
used two bottles. The
horse has become per-
fectly sound. I can rec
ommend Piso's Cure for
the horse as well as for
man.
N. 8. j. SrRIpER
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-17
NEWSPAPER NOTES.

Il is urged as am objection to
Mr.. Cleveland that his qualities arc
negative His negative is just what
the country needs.-44Etp California;
When the Democratic House of
Representative passes u pension bill
appropriating $76, 900, 600 for the year
more than the entire. expenses of the
Government before. the war-all for
Federal soldiers and their representa-
tives,. 1T Is high time to- cease talking OF
Democrats as ''rebels'' or enemies ofthe
Government But that political prop
erty" will never do service in anothez
experimentation Herald.
Mr.. Edmunds' report to the SEN
ate ON the fisheries question is politi-
cally sagacious and literally laughable.
1t Processes to profess great indigna-
ton at Great Britain's course; and yet
when you narrowly search the sentences
and scan the words, there is not left one
iota of responsibility that could be st
tached to the Republican committee if
the Administration should embron it.
self in war upon the subject They
make a seeming - Bluff and then ask
that the President be authorized to pick
a fight if he shall see fit. 1t IS very
cunning report. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The fourth class postmasters
alone number more than $1,000, and
their remuneration being based on the
value of the stamps they cancel, the re-
duction in the rate of letter postage
from three to two cents cut away one
third of their incomes at blow. None
of them can earn above $1,000 year.
and it is quite safe to say that any one
of them who approaches that sum has
to hire help for his Office. besides pay
ing for rent, fuel and other expenses.
The postmaster of the third class Aas
to meet still heavier expenses out of a
meager salary, has to provide his own
boxes, ETC., while for the literally paid
postmasters of the first and second
class the Government provides officers.
clerks and accommodations. Mr..
James, Mr.. Villas and other Post
masters-General have deprecated the
continuance of such system rs unfair
and illiberal, :Ad Il certainly deserves
the early and earnest consideration Of
Congress.-N. Y. Graphie.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-17


out that we had a short-horn pig, and
after hearing hundreds of comments
from people who sneaked up the alley
to see the creature, L said to Mr.. Bow
ser:
81 can't find any thing in the agri-
cultural papers about short-horned
pigs"
''Oh! you can'ti Did you find any
thing about a slipshod woman going
around the house with her mouth full
of hair pins and her ears open to catch
all the gossip"
That was the last time / ever men
toned the pig to him. 1 slipped out to
the pen now and then and saw that the
beast was growing thinner and hum
grier and more wild-eyed, and my
ears told me that his squeals had be-
come four tones sharper. The other
morning as we sat down to breakfast
the cook announced that the short-horn
was corpse.
'.Whati deadr' shouted Mr.. Bowser.
"Yes, sir
''Then, Mrs. Bowser, you can coun-
termand that order for the cloak! You
were determined from the outset to
drive that pig to death, and you have
finally accomplished itr'-Detroit Free
Press
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-17
SLANGY EPITAETS.
Names by Which WOrkmen Distinguish
Unsiilled Members of Their Craft.

Names by Which WOrkmen Distinguish
Unskilled Members of Their Craft.
Strikes bring out the technical slang
of the trades, and particularly the
opprobrious epithets by which the diff
ferent classes of workmen distinguish
the unskilled men who labor at the
same trades. In most cases it will be
found that these slang terms originate
in some technicality of the trade Thus
the telegraphers call poor operator a
plug" after the little metal plug OF
pin in the switchboard, good only to
open and close the circuit. They are
also called "chair-warmers, the mean
ing of which is apparent to every
body.
Printers designate an unskilled type
setter as shoemaker or BLACK
smith" The derivation of the former
appellation is from the fact that COM
positor who makes errors is obliged to
correct them after the type is set up by
taking out the misplaced letters and
''pegging the proper ones into their
places. Tailors also use the word
shoemaker" to distinguish a poor
hand, as an unskilled workman makes
his stitches too far apart, and is there
fore better adapted to sew leather,
where he can punch the holes with an
awl before putting his needle through
The appellation, BLACKSMITH is APP.
piled to printer whose fingers are
clumsy, and jeweler also terms an I'M
skilled worker at his trade ..black-
smith" for the same reason.
A term of opprobrium which was
used by old New York printers to denote
an nnskilled compositor, was the word
''boarder," fross the fact that = poor
hand was generally drinking man and
spent his time loafing or boarding in
liquor saloons.-BoStoa Globe.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-17
THE FREEDMAN'S BANK.
How the Democracy Are Attempting to
Right n Great Republican Wrong.

How the Democracy Are Attempting to
Right a Great Republican Wrong.
Soon after the war the Republican
politicians, in order to show their great
love for the race whom the fortunes of
war had set free. got up a swindling
concern called the '.Freedman's Bank"
1t ramified into all the Southern States,
and the colored people were taught to
believe that the United States Govern
ment would secure all depositors. They
took the bait and most of the poor de-
/ luded wretches have never seen their
money since. Many of them are dead,
and buried in very poor graves.
1t remained for a Democratic Presi-
dent to recommend that some restitu-
ton be made to such of the unhappy
victims of the swindle as still live. I'M
mediately a fresh lot of swindlers
started up and began buying the GER
tificates of deposit and other evidences
of the banks Indebtedness to its de-
positors. AS soon as that was done a
bill was introduced by Senator Sher-
man to reimburse the depositors.
But fortunately some of the Senators
were aware of the attempted second
swindle, and in committee Incorporated
the following amendment:
No part of the money hereby appropriated
shall be paid to any assignee of any such de-
positors, and the benefit and relief provided by
this act shall extend only to those depositors in
whose favor such balances have been properly
verified, and to their heirs and legal repre-
sentatiyes.
This is as ii should be. No as sign
rleht of any deposit has been made for
any except swindler's consideration.
The original depositors may have traded
off their certificates for circus tickets,
Or some such consideration. If they
and their heirs can be found and given
back their money it will simply be set
Ting Up the accounts of lot of Re-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-17
A Jockeys Curious Reward.

Racing successes are curSOusly re-
warded in India. The NawaD of Bha-
wulpore recently won several races
with favorite Arab steed at Umballa
and Meerut, and was so elated that he
would not let the victorious horse full
fill his other engagements, but had him
brought home in triumph. DuTbar waa
then arranged in honor of the horse and
jockey young Engiishman; but the
latter only appeared after the ere
mony, having been engaged at another
race meeting. The delighted NaVsah
then bestowed on his jockey, besides his
fee, u quantity of native dresses sno
two wives-the latter present being
sore perplexity to the jockey, who
finally managed to decline the konoss
IN. y. POSI-.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-17
ANIMAL ANIMOSITIES.

Food at the Bottom of Most Disagreemente
Among CarnivorOus Animals.
Grain and grass feeding animals may
live at peace, leading social or coloni-
al life. If the house-sparrow quarrels
at times, it is seldom over any thing
more serious than love affair; the
graver problems of life touch him not.
His food is erywhere-scattered over
every field, in every dust-bin in the
street, in every stable yard. Rabbits
again, need not quarrel about a clover
leaf; they are so prolific that they have
from four to eight young ones at a
birth, and that not once nor twice a
year, yet this only means that they
must feed in widened radius around
| the holes; and so the warren grows
and GROWS, and the tenant farmer
grumbles and growls till he loses all
| patience with ''them plaguy rabbits,
and vows: eff squoire wunt kill 'em.
| wull!' With carnivorous animals, how
ever, the case is widely differeD+.
Their prey is limited and difficult 90
catch. They are never, in the strict
sense of the word, gregarious. and ma
ture unaided can support them but
sparingly; when the balance is dis
turbed quarrels ensue. Britain has lost
with the bear and the wolf her larger
carnivora, though the otter, the badger
and the fox remain. Offers are, COM
paratively speaking, thinly distributed.
and seldom remain more than day
in the same spot, wandering far in
search of food. The badger is omni-
vorous-wasps' nests. young rabbits,
beetles, worms or blue-bell roots, moth
ing comes amiss. Hence, where once
fairly established, as in Our own neigh
borhOod, they often increase in consld-
cradle numbers. But were natures
efforts not supplemented by the game
preserver and the hen-wife, the fox, in
his present numbers, would be in
poor case indeed, and where food is
really scarce, us in the highlands of the
North, the shepherd boy can tell of
many - battle in the dawn A pair of
brown owls of our acquain tance were
induced some years ago to nest in a
box fixed up in a high beech tree.
They have remained in possession ever
since, nesting every spring and bring
ing up their young. No sooner, how
ever, are these young full grown than
their parents begin driving them about;
with scarce IA moments pause they
hustle and worry and scare them from
tree to tree, until at the end of week
or so they succeed in ejecting them
FROM the place. There are many hol-
low trees and-which brown owls like
better trees all about; but no, the
neighborhood can not support them,
and go they must. A pair of moor
hens in a small pond in our garden do
the same, apparently because there is
only one good nesting -place-an azalea
which hangs over the water.-Satur-
day ReUie1O.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-17

AT the present day the tree veg
citation of Iceland IS dwarfsh i'm appear
ancc. trees fifteen or twenty feet in
height being rare There is. nd doubt,
however. that extensive fonests once
existed in the island. This is proved by
the abundance of lOg-woodL The for
ests that remain are mostly of birch,
the trees being hardly larger than
bushes The decrease of woodland ii
Iceland is due not to amy change Of
climate or volcanic outbu5st, but 70 the
destruction of the trees by the inhab,
itants themselves, who wanted tie
wood to use rs fuel and for other plr-
poses.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-17

publican swind- ers out OF Charity to
their victims
Shall we ever get done paying for
the corruption of twenty-five years of
Republicans rule? 1t seems as if the
bills come in pretty thick and pretty
constantly. Let us hope they will RUIZ
out some time. We should think tho
average Republican would blush to
read such telegraphic news as that re-
lating to the Freedman's Bank.-Des
NOiReS Leader
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-17
-One of the most el9nuent preachers

One of the most eloquent preachers
of this city tells good joke at his.Own
expense as follows: when 1 Was in
Florida last winter I preached. to a
negro congregation one Sunday, ex-
cusing myself fromsaying much on az
count of my poor health. Tho colored
minister in his closing prayer said: %,
good Lawd, bless. our Brother l.,
who has preaeasd to us in hes pore,
weak way IN. Y Tribune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-17

Among the recruits recognized as
unfit for Tnilitary service in Switzer-
land in 1885 were Sc per cent. of the
tObacco-workers. 81 per cent. of the
basket makers. 60 per cent of the tail
ors, 25 per cent. of the butchers. and
p per cent of the stonemasons and
carpenters. Of 6,154 recruits in Can
ton Berne 1883 were refused; of these.
5S1 suffered from goitre, and l62 from
fiat-foot
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-26

Second 90 world Wyam T. Hackworth aud T.
Walters 1871. r. TraWthick patent, 1872 Wy
lam and Lamngton railway, 1911 drawing of
train with huntsmen and hOundsl
Third in world Wylam, Timothy Hackworth
and j Foster 1872 Two cylinder locomotives
train sixteen cars seal, chaldr0n coal in each
A number locomotives built at Wylam railway
This established locomotives Wylam and Lam
iu.ton railway 1872
Fourth j Blenkensop patent, 1911 Rack rail
AMI engine Middleton, near Leeds Messrs Fen
ton Wood Murry q Jackson. builders Leeds
number of these locomotives used on Middleton
and Leeds railway and kenten aud laWdowu Col
hcry railway 1872 aud 1913 Aug II. 1872 They
continued for many years 90 be- one Of the princi-
pal curiositics Of tine day
Mr.. Matthew then sketches the Stone
bridge Lion, crossing the west branch Of the
Lackawaxen river on the Delaware and
Hudson Canal companys road, Honesdale,
Pa. or he says: "Stonebridge Lion. II.
Allen an alone, crossing river. Aug 3, 1929;
short run of a few miles, and then abandoned;
no further use of locomotive on railroad; 10
conceive housed for many years"
Next comes the locomotive Tom Thumb,
which was run By Peter Cooper and party on
the Baltimore aud Ohio railroad, Aug o.
1850
M Matthew appends these remarks.
Peter Cooper, locomotive and party at Relay
house. ON Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Aug -,
lsD Peter ubaudons his locomotive engine, and
horses run thc road Co Elic0tt Mill ON Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, Nd
Iic then gives "The first passenger train
hauled on a railroad in America, Charleston
and Hamburg railroad, S c. The locomo-
tive Best Friend speed thirty 20 thirty-iiye
miles am hour, November /, 1880, J. ID.
Petech, W. NJ, y. W. Darrell, engineer.
june IL, 1881. exploded boiler. Nov. 3,
wheels gave ont
His picture bears in addition this inscrip-
ton: drew thi, picture on 10Th anniversary
of exhibiting Of Best Friend by me at West
Point foundry where she was built.
The BEST Friend" and West Point also
run ON the Central and Hudson River railroad,
were the two first engines made in America.
They were built, the first for L L. Miller, and
the second for II. Allen, at the West Point
foundry shops, New York city
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-26

Next follows the pioneer cowcatcher for
night protection and pioneer night trains
The cowcatcher protected the Eight engines,
not heavy enough b. encounter stock in the
Mohawk valley, once the great hunting
grounds Of the Mohawk chiefs, now passed
away"
The last invention OF the old man was made
in 1910. and was n curiously constructed
smoke pipe and arrangement of the cylinders
This invention does not seem 90 have taken
bold Of the railroad men, but the reader may
we'll join with bin in tine jubilate bee has APP
pended 10 the last Of his drawings:
what have see is one Of the greatest wonders
Of this world, the first appicat Do 0f steam to the
locomotive engine ON the American continent
MAY. ls29 I crossed the continent lsfl. Hni
have seen and helped 30 build haruis ami train
IT, the locomotive % the flying cares when 10 was
a colt weight 3 ! tons. and see 10 and cares rum
ming and flying over valies. hills. mounting rivers
and through mountains from ocean to ocean.
where 10 can be- see nearly everywhere this A.
ISL All in the short period Of hny-hve years "
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-26
SUMMER RESORT NOTEs.

Mount Hueeug n Ncn Hampshire Is o.
havea summer hotel thought orifal ki~i
mee. Fla. a- pleasure resort
II picasss the Saratoga people to Observe
how the coluge colony is expanding every
wear. aud t0uotc, too, the "rich quality 0t
the newcomers.
Student walters at White Mountain hotels
viii De amenabie 90 gifts of certified checks
from aII visiting millionaire who d"re t'
hasten fh. completion 0l their classical eiuea-
tom
Archery IS 20 Doe Dee, ivcl at Newport aside
from the recreation experimental hy CUPID.
and 900 several lawns are already seen tHe
TARGET and netting for arrows that avoid the
buu-efe.
Whore w.n mosquitoes pass The season'
Each and every one OF the lO.00s summer re
sorts advertise positively uo mosquitoes
But ,hi- may Dee merely warning for then
not o. comet
Tn.r are to have am aquatic tournament
a. Lake George in August wlth boat races
for muiIens and prizes worth winning The
lastu.ghf there is TO De feast OF lanterns
ou tl. lake,
They are giving out that President Cev-
land wil ply visit in August O. tle Went
worth Newcastle. r. H. which is kept ll
his particular political friend, Hon. Fraua
Jones, brewer
s man painting "a patent medicine adyer-
t.-.meut ou tle rocks az CatkiU the other
day WAS thrown down precpce by an boz
dsuant hotel keeper The patent medicine